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CPU Load vs Utilization

list Henrik Størner
Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:54:03 +0100
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Den 22-02-2011 01:46, TJ Yang skrev:
Recently a concern was raised by my Xymon user.

On Xymon Unix machine's (R3) CPU column is showing CPU load number (0 to 20+).
On Windows machine(R2) using bbwin CPU column is showing CPU
Utilization number in percentage(0%-100%).

Shouldn't we  distinguish Unix CPU and Windows CPU columns ?
Since they are using two different metric.
I agree it can be a bit confusing - it's down to the historical heritage of the way Big Brother worked.

It will change, but to do so requires some code changes. And probably some standardization of the way performance metris (vmstat for unix, cpu data for WIndows) is kept in the RRD-files.


Regards,
Henrik